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Warm Fall season greetings to all of the friends and supporters of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
This month our news travels from a communist hideout in Mexico to Secretary George Shultz’s former State Department office.
We’ve newly digitized a trove of photographs of Trotsky in exile taken by a photographer who served as a guard at his compound. And we have acquired an updated version of the globe that Mr. Shultz used to test new ambassadors (the details are below).
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In addition we’ve described and opened for research several collections, including those of Michael Boskin, economist and senior fellow at Hoover, and have published a new book based on our collections.
Wishing good health to you and yours.
-Eric Wakin, Director
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[Poster: Baie du Bouley. An A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) leave area. (FR 1629)]
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Digitizing the
Alexander H. Buchman Photographs
Among the first images digitized from the photographic negatives of Alexander H. Buchman are that of Leon Trotsky and many never-before-seen images of Shanghai. Buchman was an American engineer, journalist, and amateur photographer who spent several years in China and was probably best known for
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being a bodyguard to Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. The China photos (circa 1933–39) illustrate daily life in Shanghai, as well as events such as the 1937 Japanese bombing of Shanghai. Those taken in Mexico (1939–40) include photos of Trotsky, his wife Natalia Sedova, Diego Rivera, and others in his circle. These images are now available on the Digital Collections website which can be accessed by anyone, from anywhere and on any device. The entire collection is also open for research.
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George Shultz’s State Department Globe
Our latest acquisition proves that we not only collect around the globe, sometimes we collect the globe. The latest increment to the George Shultz papers appears to be an updated version of the famous globe from his State Department office. Mr. Shultz would often bring new ambassadors into his office and take them to the globe, where he would request them to “Show me your country”. If the diplomat pointed out the country of his or her new post, Secretary Shultz would correct them: pointing to the United States, he would say “This is your country.” Those attending the fall Hoover retreat will be able to see the globe and point to their country.
[Photo (left): Secretary Shultz shaking hands with James Goodby standing next to globe and (right) image of globe, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.]
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Kao Tsu
Kao Tsu was a Nationalist Chinese naval officer who served under Chiang Kai-shek. He helped to prepare postwar China’s contribution to the United Nations’ sea power for keeping peace in the Western Pacific, and played a role in the Quemoy Defense Command during the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis. His personal papers document an unusual and forgotten aspect in the long history of modern China and Taiwan’s military relationship with the United States.
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Easley Jones
Easley Jones was a volunteer for the American Red Cross in Asia. The collection contains journals and photographs, negatives, and glass lantern slides that document his service while in China, Korea, Japan, and Siberia from 1919 to 1920. Jones also documented in great detail some of his impressions of Vladivostok, a city in Russia near the borders of China and North Korea, which was under Allied control during the intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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I Saw the Angel of Death
The Library & Archives has preserved the testimonies of more than 30,000 Polish survivors of the gulag. Among these are 171 accounts of Polish Jews who suffered both German and Soviet occupation; were transported hundreds or thousands of miles to suffer again in brutal Soviet forced-labor camps; and were eventually released, escaping to the Middle East. These testimonies are collected for the first time in a scholarly English translation titled I Saw the Angel of Death (Hoover Institution Press, 2022). The book was edited by Dr. Maciej Siekierski, a former research fellow and curator emeritus of the European collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, and Dr. Feliks Tych (1929–2015) an eminent Polish historian.
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Michael J. Boskin
and Other Collections Open For Research
The papers of the Wohlford Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Michael J. Boskin, who is internationally recognized for his research in economics, are now open for research. Boskin served as Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1989 to 1993, Documents in the collection relate to economic conditions in the United States, and financial, trade, regulatory, and environmental policy during the presidential administration of George Bush.
Other collections recently opened for research include the Mikhail Sokolov papers, Henry Norbert Wolff diary, Robert Edward Edmondson papers, and more.
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Golden Tripod Award
Hsiao-ting Lin, research fellow and curator for the Modern China and Taiwan Collections will receive the highest honors in Taiwan's publishing industry—a Golden Tripod Award for best non-fiction work for his book, The Chiang Ching-Kuo Era: the Republic of China on Taiwan in the Cold War (Chinese Edition) (Yuan Zu Wen Hua, 2021). Dr. Lin uses the personal diaries of Chiang Ching-kuo and over thirty archival collections and declassified official papers from the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom to provide a comprehensive historical and political landscape of Taiwan between 1949 and 1988.
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Zahedi Family Fellowship
The application period for the Zahedi Family Fellowship is now open. The deadline to apply is December 2, 2022. During the fellowship period, the Zahedi Fellow is expected to pursue independent research in residency and to hold a lecture, seminar or workshop on their research, organized by the Stanford Iranian Studies Program. The Zahedi fellow will have access to Stanford University Libraries as well as the Hoover Institution Library & Archives where the Zahedi Archives is housed.
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Featuring Our Collections
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“Race, Nutrition and Empire: Domestic Reform and Japanese Immigrants in Territorial-Era Hawaiʻi” Gender & History Special Issue
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Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
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Transpacific Convergences Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
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